About Me

Staten Island, New York, United States
I've worked in the FDNY for the past 29 years. I've written freelance commentary for the past twenty years and have one book published "Looking Up (A Working View)," Quiet Storm Publishers. For those of you with whom my ideas resonate, we probably share a common love of Liberty. If you like anything you read here, feel free to reuse...just please add my appellation. Life's been more than fair to me and this is a part of my humble offering back. If you have any corrections, or additions, please email me (my email address is in my profile) and I’ll both appreciate and consider them all and do my best to get back to you with my thoughts on it. My ideas are always evolving and I’m open to persuasion in all areas. I thank all those who've taken some of their time to read here.

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

Wisconsin
Governor Scott Walker’s 53-46 win on Tuesday was helped in large part by labor support
- exit polls from Tuesday’s recall election showed that 38 percent of Walker’s
voters came from homes that included union members.

And
why not?

The
vast majority of working Americans remain deeply Conservative, in a country in
which (according to Gallup) Conservatives outnumber liberals by over 2 to 1.

Worse
still public sector unions are seemingly shooting themselves in both feet every
day lately.

Whether
its New York City public school teachers with; “An upsurge in sexual misconduct allegations is rocking city schools —
with more than 150 complaints against staffers in April and May alone, official
data show.

Moreover, Scott Walker's win on Tuesday was a sound rebuke by Wisconsin voters that outside interest weren't welcome in their local politics. If anything outside Union support for the recall only hurt that effort.

Is
it any wonder that many unionized workers themselves support reining in such
abuses?

So while Big Labor and the “liberal” coalition
took a big hit on Tuesday, working Americans won big.